noun / adjective / adverb
coach
A passenger vehicle or compartment for shared travel.
The coach carries passengers between the two cities every morning.
Etymology
Hungarian kocsi meant of Kocs, a town associated with carriage making. The vehicle’s place-based name spread to passenger coaches and later to compartments or classes of shared travel.
More examples
- A pair of horses pulls the coach through town.
- Our seats are in the train's last coach.
- We fly coach to keep our travel costs down.
- Coach seats cost less than first-class seats on this flight.
Forms
coach · coaches
coachman noun — A person who drives a horse-drawn coach.